[joshfng]

I totally agree that you should become fully comfortable with setting up a box manually. But when you perform the same setup over and over and have the process memorized as I do then writing a little shell script to get the job done never hurts.

[colbyolson]

I agree, and perhaps I should have added that into my comment.

For a newbie, have them walk through it, but for the repeated process, then automate it.